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Meet Dr. Gaffrey
Dr. Tim Gaffrey was born in Redlands, California and grew up in California and Virginia. He played tennis and ran cross country in high school and is an Eagle Scout. As an undergrad, Dr. Gaffrey majored in forestry at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and originally aspired to be a firefighter (can you spot him in the picture of the forest firefighters?). His interest in ecology and wildlife eventually grew into a desire to become a veterinarian. After graduating summa cum laude from Cal Poly, he went on to attend North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine.
In veterinary school, Dr. Gaffrey focused on small animal medicine with a sub-focus in companion exotic animals. He got to work with a variety of wild and unusual species including sea turtles, marine mammals, parrots, waterfowl, and exotic pet animals. He was also the president of the wildlife, zoo and exotic animal medicine club and studied abroad in India (he took the photo of the wild bengal tiger you see below himself!). After graduating as a member of the Phi Zeta Veterinary Honor Society, Dr. Gaffrey began practice at a small animal clinic in his hometown of Porterville, California.
In February 2017, Dr. Gaffrey and his wife, Casey, moved to Texas to purchase their own veterinary hospital- now known as Stoneside Veterinary Hospital. The Gaffrey's live with their dogs Snickers and Miles and their cats Baxter, Ozzie, and Pineapple. As a veterinarian, Dr. Gaffrey has special interests in medicine, soft tissue surgery, laser therapy, and a high level of service to his clients. Dr. Gaffrey's hobbies include hiking, fishing, hunting, music, and playing both roller and ice hockey weekly in Houston.
Please stop by to meet Dr. Gaffrey and the whole Stoneside family!
Meet Julie
Julie is a 2008 graduate from Cy-Creek high school currently enrolled in college to further her education. She is the mom of a smart, sweet, football loving 9 year old boy named Spencer, and a fur baby named Roxie. Julie spends her free time watching her son play football and spending time with family and friends.
Julie wears many hats, but usually you will find her in the front office!
Meet Leslie, Licensed Veterinary Technician
Leslie is a native Houstonian and attended the University of Texas at Austin and Lonestar College. She received her degree in veterinary technology and became a Licensed Veterinary Technician in 1992. After graduation, she worked at a busy small animal practice in Houston for 11 years as head technician; as well as intermittent animal emergency work. After giving birth to her second daughter, she stayed home to raise her family in Cypress. Now that she has one daughter in college and the other is close to graduating high school, Leslie decided to return to work part time. She now lives in Hockley with her husband, Dave, daughters Kara and Alyse, 5 dogs, 2 cats and 2 horses. Leslie's hobbies include horseback riding, spending time with family and friends, and outdoor activities. She is very excited to be a part of the Stoneside Vet Hospital family and is looking forward to meeting you and caring for your furbabies!
Meet Erin, Veterinary Assistant
Erin worked as a veterinary assistant at our practice while attending Cypress Ranch High School. She now lives in College Station and recently rejoined our team as a veterinary assistant, but plans on getting her veterinary technician license in the future. She has a handsome black lab named Brody and two cats, Sammy and Bella. In her free time she enjoys riding horses, spending time with family and friends, or floating the river! You will find Erin helping your pets in exam rooms and assisting with procedures and surgeries.


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Zinc is an essential trace mineral, which, next to iron, is the second most abundant trace mineral in the body. It is a component in over 200 enzymes. Zinc is stored primarily in muscle but high concentrations are also found in red and white blood cells and the retina. It is also found in bones, skin, kidney, liver, and pancreas. In men, the prostate gland contains more zinc than any other organ.
Zinc is a part of some important antioxidant compounds, including superoxide dismutase (SOD) and zinc monomethionine. It protects the liver from chemical damage, helping with detoxification of the body. It is required for a healthy immune system. Taking zinc supplements has been shown to reduce infection and speed wound healing. Studies have shown it helps treat and prevent acne. It is essential for proper growth and development, especially early in life. It is necessary to maintain proper vision, taste, and smell.
Zinc deficiency may be a more common problem than previously thought, especially as people age. In clinical studies on the effects of zinc supplementation in the elderly, zinc improved immune system function, reduced the incidence of illness, and decreased the incidence of anorexia.
Recent research has been conducted to determine the true value of zinc lozenges in preventing or reducing cold symptoms.
Dietary Sources
Zinc absorption from foods varies from 20% to 40% of ingested zinc. Zinc from animal foods is the best absorbed form. When bound with the phytates or oxalates in vegetable sources, zinc is less available, and vegetable fiber itself impedes the absorption of zinc. Dairy products and eggs contain fair amounts of zinc, but again, it may be poorly absorbed from these sources.
The following foods contain high amounts of zinc in the most absorbable form.
Oysters (richest source)
Red meats
Shrimp, crab, and other shellfish
Other good sources, but which may be less absorbable, include legumes (especially lima beans, black-eyed peas, pinto beans, soybeans, peanuts) whole grains, miso, tofu, brewer's yeast, cooked greens, mushrooms, green beans, and pumpkin seeds.
Zinc is a metallic element present in soil.
Commercial Preparations
The most commonly used zinc supplement has been zinc sulfate. This is the least expensive form, but it may cause gastric irritation and is less absorbable than other forms. It is usually prescribed as 220 mg zinc sulfate, which provides approximately 55 mg of elemental zinc. More absorbable forms such as the following are available.
Zinc picolinate
Zinc citrate
Zinc acetate
Zinc glycerate
Zinc monomethionine
These forms come in capsules supplying 30 or 50 mg of elemental zinc. The amount in milligrams per capsule of these other zinc compounds can vary, according to the percentage of elemental zinc contained. Zinc lozenges are also available, which supply varying amounts of zinc and are used for treating colds.
Therapeutic Uses
Benefits of zinc include the following.
Treats depressed immunity
Improves wound healing
Treats and may prevent acne
May prevent macular degeneration
Treats anorexia nervosa (anorexia is a symptom of zinc deficiency, and the teenage population is at higher risk for zinc deficiency due to dietary habits)
Improves male fertility and sexual function, especially among smokers
Treats rheumatoid arthritis
Treats Wilson's disease (a disorder of excess copper storage)
Decreases taste alteration during cancer treatments
Improves sense of taste and smell
Some conditions may impair zinc absorption, or increase the need for zinc. Individuals with the following conditions may benefit from zinc supplementation.
Acrodermatitis enteropathica (the inherited disease of zinc malabsorption)
Pregnancy, lactation
Kidney disease, dialysis
Celiac disease
Inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis
Chronic diarrhea
Pancreatic insufficiency
Oral contraceptive use
Prostate problems (BPH, prostatitis, cancer)
Dosage Ranges and Duration of Administration
The RDA for zinc is as follows.
Infants to 1 year: 5 mg
1 to 10 years: 10 mg
Males over 10 years: 15 mg
Females over 10 years: 12 mg
Pregnant females: 15 mg
Lactating females: (0 to 6 months) 19 mg, (6 to 12 months) 16 mg
Therapeutic ranges (elemental zinc):
Men: 30 to 60 mg daily
Women: 30 to 45 mg daily
Doses over this amount should be limited to only a few months under the supervision of a health care professional.
Side Effects/Toxicology
Zinc is the least toxic trace mineral. Symptoms of toxicity are GI irritation and vomiting, usually occurring after a dose of 2,000 mg or more has been ingested. Studies have confirmed that up to 10 times the RDA (150 mg) taken even over time was not toxic. Doses this high are unnecessary and interfere with the assimilation of other trace minerals such as copper and iron.
Too much zinc (over 150 mg/day over time) lowers HDL cholesterol and raises LDL cholesterol, an undesirable effect. Megadoses of zinc are reported to depress immune function. Studies on this have been inconclusive, and further research is needed.
Zinc sulfate can cause gastric irritation, but another form can be used instead if this occurs. Other reported side effects of zinc toxicity are dizziness, headache, drowsiness, increased sweating, muscular incoordination, alcohol intolerance, hallucinations, and anemia.
Because of the multiple interactions zinc has with other nutrients, it is advisable to take a balanced multiple vitamin/mineral preparation that contains zinc as well as copper, iron, and folate, to help prevent deficiencies of these nutrients.
Estrogens; ProgestinsPostmenopausal women treated with conjugated estrogens and medroxyprogesterone acetate experienced reductions in zinc excretion of 35% after 3 months and 26% after one year (Herzberg et al. 1996). The reduction was more pronounced in women with osteoporosis who had elevated zinc excretion at the beginning of the study. The clinical significance of this interaction is unknown.
HydralazineThere is a case report of a 58-year-old woman who developed a lupus erythematosus-like syndrome within 1 week following the addition of zinc sulphate therapy (200 mg po tid) to her drug regimen (30 to 200 mg/day hydralazine; 120 to 640 mg/day propranolol; polythiazide; potassium chloride; propylthiouracil; and thyroxine) for the treatment of leg ulcers (Fjellner 1979). Her symptoms included fever, abdominal distress, facial butterfly rash, enlargement of the leg ulcers, oral ulcers, and maculopapular eruptions on legs, trunk, and arms. Withdrawal of zinc prompted clinical improvement, including healing of the oral ulcers and remission of the fever and abdominal distress. However, the patient's condition did not resolve completely until all the medications except thyroxine also were discontinued.
Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs)Zinc interacts with anti-inflammatory medications by forming complexes with these drugs (Dendrinou-Samara et al. 1998).
Quinolone AntibioticsQuinolone antibiotics form chelates with metal cations, such as aluminum, magnesium, calcium, iron, zinc, copper, and manganese (Kara et al. 1991; Li et al. 1999), which significantly reduces the absorption of these medications (Balfour and Wiseman 1999; Brouwers 1992; Campbell and Hasinoff 1991). Dietary supplements and antacids containing aluminum and magnesium should be taken two to four hours before or after administration of these antibiotics (Hines Burnham et al. 2000; Li et al. 1999).
Tetracycline DerivativesTetracyclines form chelates with divalent and trivalent cations, including iron, aluminum, magnesium, and calcium (Neuvonen 1976). These chelates are poorly soluble and can significantly reduce the absorption and efficacy of tetracyclines (Hines Burnham et al. 2000; Neuvonen 1976). However, in an in vitro study, zinc-drug interactions in gastrointestinal fluid influenced the bioavailability of both zinc and tetracycline or tetracycline analogs (Brion et al. 1985).
Balfour JA, Wiseman LR. Moxifloxacin. Drugs. 1999;57(3):363-374.
Brion M, Lambs L, Berthon G. Metal ion-tetracycline interactions in biological fluids. Part 5. Formation of zinc complexes with tetracycline and some of its derivatives and assessment of their biological significance. Agents Actions. 1985;17:230-242.
Brouwers JR. Drug interactions with quinolone antibacterials. Drug Saf. 1992;7(4):268-281.
Campbell NR, Hasinoff BB. Iron supplements: a common cause of drug interactions. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 1991;31(3):251-255.
Dendrinou-Samara C, Tsotsou G, Ekateriniadou E, et al. Anti-inflammatory drugs interacting with Zn(II), Cd(II) and Pt(II) metal ions. J Inorg Biochem. 1998; 71: 171-179.
Eby GA. Zinc ion availability—the determinant of efficacy in zinc lozenge treatment of common colds. J Antimicrob Chemother. 1997;40:483-493.
Feltman J. Prevention's Food & Nutrition. Emmaus, Pa: Rodale Press; 1993.
Fjellner B. Drug-induced lupus erythematosus aggravated by oral zinc therapy. Acta Dermatovener. 1979;59:368-370.
Fortes C, Forastiere F, Agabiti N, et al. The effect of zinc and vitamin A supplementation on immune response in an older population. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1998;46:19-26.
Garland ML, Hagmeyer KO. The role of zinc lozenges in treatment of the common cold. Ann Pharmacother.1998;32:63-69.
Golik A, Zaidenstein R, Dishi V, et al. Effects of captopril and enalapril on zinc metabolism in hypertensive patients.J Am Coll Nutr. 1998;17:75-78.
Haas E. Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine. Berkeley, Calif: Celestial Arts Publishing; 1992.
Hendler SS. The Doctors' Vitamin and Mineral Encyclopedia. New York, NY: Fireside Press; 1991.
Herzberg M, Lusky A, Blonder J, Frenkel Y. The effect of estrogen replacement therapy on zinc in serum and urine.Obstet Gynecol. 1996;87(6):1035-1040.
Hines Burnham, et al, eds. Drug Facts and Comparisons. St. Louis, MO:Facts and Comparisons; 2000:1295.
Kara M, Hasinoff BB, McKay DW, et al. Clinical and chemical interactions between iron preparations and ciprofloxacin. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 1991;31(3):257-261.
Leake A, Chisholm GD, Habib FK. The effect of zinc on the 5a-reduction of testosterone by the hyperplastic human prostate gland. J Ster Biochem. 1984;20:651-655.
Li RC, Lo KN, Lam JS, et al. Effects of order of magnesium exposure on the postantibiotic effect and bactericidal activity of ciprofloxacin. J Chemother. 1999;11(4):243-247.
Lieberman S, Bruning N. The Real Vitamin & Mineral Book. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Avery Publishing Group; 1997.
Murray M. Encyclopedia of Nutritional Supplements.Rocklin, Calif: Prima Publishing; 1996.
Neuvonen PJ. Interactions with the absorption of tetracyclines. Drugs. 1976;11(1):45-54.
Pronsky Z. Food-Medication Interactions. 9th ed. Pottstown, Pa: Food-Medicine Interactions; 1995.
Sazawal S, Black RE, Jalla S, et al. Zinc supplementation reduces the incidence of acute lower respiratory infections in infants and preschool children: a double-blind, controlled trial. Pediatrics. 1998;102(part 1):1-5.
Shealy CN. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Healing Remedies. Boston, Mass: Element Books Inc.; 1998.
Somer E. The Essential Guide to Vitamins and Minerals.New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.; 1995.
Whitney E, Cataldo C, Rolfes S. Understanding Normal and Clinical Nutrition. St. Paul, Minn: West Publishing Co.; 1987

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Playing with Inkscape today, learning how to make one object (quick drawn heart) repeat along the path of another object (a circle) and then see what it looks like with different filter effects applied and saved each as clipart so I can use them as "photo frames" in different software. Here is what a few look like stacked up in OpenOffice Draw, exported as a jpg and then cropped in whatever this Windows 10 photo thing is called.
Some come out a little bit fuzzy around the edges after being dragged through several software programs. Maybe I should apply a "clean edge" filter before use?
This next photo used one of the "heart frames" created in Inkscape in a program called GIMP to border a photo of a butterfly snapped at the Southside Community Garden's 2015 Butterfly Festival in Youngstown, Ohio.
I wanted to see what some of my button designs would look like on T-shirts and other items, so I've been playing on CafePress, too.
If you shop CafePress, a word to the wise: the prices you see on CafePress depends on how you get there… if you go directly to a shop via a link or typing in the URL, you will see the shopkeeper's prices. If you find the same items in CafePress' Marketplace, you will see Marketplace pricing.
I thought about clicking the box to sync my prices with "Marketplace pricing" so it would not matter how people find my items on CafePress, the prices would be the same. However, CafePress suggests "Low Tier" for new shops, so I compared pricing on a t-shirt and realized that's a way for shopkeepers to offer a nice discount to blog readers and social media friends, &c. Profit wise, it's no big deal… 10% either way.
My only wish is to be able to buy one of everything I post up there just for quality control as I'm a bit anal like that… I'm just going by pictures, too.
If you want to visit my shop and see what I have posted so far, the URL is http://www.cafepress.com/YoPeace (there's a link on the sidebar, too).
I plan to add new designs every week. It's fun… I included button products with the butterfly today, even though that is a button design I make right here in Youngstown.
I don't think CafePress uses the same brand of machinery (or button parts) as the back view of the pin does not look like mine… just letting you know that any buttons purchased with my designs ON CafePress are made BY CafePress.
I'm still working on my Square shop, where all buttons will be made by me… with any luck, it will go "live" on Labor Day. Thanks for reading!


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Six Jewish institutions will receive a portion of $450,000 from the Department of Homeland Security's Nonprofit Security Grant Program to purchase equipment to aid in safeguarding their campuses.
The Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, Kulanu Academy in Cedarhurst, Young Israel in Woodmere and Kehilas Bais Yehudah Tzvi in Cedarhurst will receive money, as well as Central Synagogue-Beth Emeth in Rockville Centre. All the nonprofits will receive $75,000, except for Kehilas Bais Yehudah Tzvi. The synagogue will get $74,800.
"We are thrilled to receive this grant from the federal government to upgrade our security system with new cameras and new security gates," Reuben Maron, HAFTR's executive director said in a prepared news release.
Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City), who has previously helped to obtain these grants for local Jewish institutions, said the funding is vital considering what has already happened across the country.
"At a time when acts of anti-Semitism have dramatically increased in the U.S. and the thread of terrorism continues to evolve, one of the most effective things we can do is to help potential targets enhance their security and emergency response capabilities and prepare for worst case scenarios," the congresswoman said in the news release.
The money is helpful and provides peace of mind for synagogue congregants. "This grant will allow us to invest in the security and protection of our Synagogue and congregants so we can focus our efforts on our prayers and continued service to the community," said Yoel Goldfeder, chairman of the Security Committee at Kehillas Bais Yehudah Tzvi, in the release.
The rise of white nationalism and anti-Semitic hate crimes has put many people in the Five Towns on edge. "In today's time, security for all is critical," Dr. Beth Raskin, executive director of Kulanu Academy, said in the release. "Those who cannot sufficiently defend themselves are at greater risk … Creating a secure exterior double entry portico ensures peace of mind for students, families and employees."
Last year, Rice helped to obtain nearly $575,000 in funding for several Jewish nonprofits. In 2015, it was a total of $150,000 for Aish Kodesh shul in Woodmere and the Chabad Center for Jewish Life in Merrick in 2015.
"I'm pleased that we secured this funding to help enhance security measures at Jewish nonprofits in our district, and I'll continue working to ensure that all of our communities have the resources and support they need to keep people safe," she said.
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The Inwood Fire Department will receive a $230,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security's Assistance to Firefighters program and will now be to buy the 41 breathing units it has been leasing since the 2014 death of firefighter Joseph Sanford Jr.
Sanford, who was equipped with a breathing unit that was considered up to the standards of the time, responded to a Woodmere house fire in December of that year. He fell through the first floor and lost consciousness. He died four days later. Fire Department officials believe that the improved technology will help save to firefighters' lives.


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With its futuristic buildings and influences from different Asian cultures, Singapore is one of the most popular travel destinations in Southeast Asia. FCB also got to enjoy the hospitality of the exotic city state for five days, and the players used their social media channels to depict their experience. fcbayern.com has put together some of their tweets and posts.
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PSLF provides student debt relief to firefighters struggling to repay federal student loans.
In most cases, city fire departments do not require education beyond a high school diploma or GED. However, if you want to advance or have a goal to become chief, you may need a higher education .
But there's a catch. The debt you incur for a degree can easily outstrip the income you receive as a firefighter. Even with the income boost of a higher education, you can struggle to pay off your debt. Student loan payments can keep you living paycheck to paycheck. Meanwhile. the debt prevents you from accomplishing other life goals, like homeownership.
Fact: The 2017 salary range for firefighters ranges from $33,528 to $55,879, according to Salary.com.
Fact: 68% of for-profit and nonprofit college graduates have student loan debt, with an average balance of $30,100*
The unintended trap of student loans
The Department of Education designed federal student loans so its easy to qualify. Qualification is not based on your credit; it's based need. But that means your debt-to-income ratio does not factor in during loan approval.
So, unlike a regular loan, you can get a federal student loan even if you don't (and won't) have the income to pay it back. Given the current cost of tuition and attending school, you simply may not make enough money to repay your loans.
That's especially true for anyone who works in the public service sector, like a firefighter. Cities and municipalities usually employ firefighters, so the income can be modest. You don't do what you do for a huge paycheck.
Still, that's a problem if you took out student loans to advance your career as a firefighter. Luckily, Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) offers a solution to help you get out from under your student loan debt burden.
Pop Quiz
True or false: The majority of fire departments require EMT training if you want to be a paid employee of the department.
Tip: Roughly 70% of fire departments require EMT training.
a) True
How Student Loan Forgiveness for Firefighters Works
Qualification for PSLF is not immediate. You have to take a number of steps first. If you start now and follow the steps below, you would be eligible for loan forgiveness in 10 years.
- First you must enroll in a hardship based federal repayment plan.
- It's also recommend that you complete the Employment Certification Form and submit to certify your employment eligibility for PSLF.
- You then make 120 qualified payments to your repayment plan; you can change plans as long as you maintain enrollment in the three programs above.
- During that time, you should re-certify your employment annually or anytime you change jobs. This ensures you continue to work for a department that qualifies you for PSLF.
- After 120 payments (10 years) you apply for PSLF. Once approved, the federal government forgives the remaining balances on all federal student loans included in your repayment plan.
Maintaining eligibility for PSLF
As you can see from the instructions above, qualifying for loan forgiveness all depends on maintaining eligibility. You must meet the qualification for forgiveness throughout the ten years of repayment. This can be challenging.
- You can't move out of the public service sector. Firefighters usually qualify for PSLF because city and municipal employment counts as public service. However, you can't switch careers, work for a company and still get your loans forgiven
- You must make ALL qualified payments during the 10-year term. It's important to note if you enroll in PayE and your income is especially low, some payments may be waived. This counts as making a qualified payment.
Employment certification is not a requirement to qualify for forgiveness through PSLF. However, the Department of Education through StudentAid.gov recommends getting certified early and maintaining it. It's the only way to affirm you can earn forgiveness in 10 years.
Important Warnings about 2017 Loan Forgiveness
People often think Public Service Loan Forgiveness is Obama Student Loan Forgiveness. In fact, the Department of Education created and implemented PSLF under George W. Bush. The program started back in 2007.
Interestingly enough, that means the first loans the government will forgive should happen this year. If you've been a firefighter since 2007 and met all your eligibility requirements, you may be looking forward to forgiveness… finally.
However, we must note that PSLF is a federal program. As a result, it is subject to change by the Department of Education. The program can also be ended entirely. Some people consider it to be an entitlement program. As such, it's possible that the current DOE headed by Betsy DeVos may alter loan forgiveness as it exists today.
What does this mean for your chances of forgiveness?
By design, qualifying for PSLF is a process 10-years in the making when it finally happens. Even before that, the DOE also controls the federal repayment plans. That means the IBR, ICR and PayE programs may change, too.
The good news is that program changes and end dates often don't affect those already enrolled. For instance, HAMP is a federal mortgage relief program that ended in January of 2017. If you started your application by December 31, 2016, you could still qualify, You just couldn't apply after January 1.
This means you need to act as quickly as possible. The further along you are in the process, the better your chances of staying in the program under the old rules. Enroll in a hardship repayment program that works for your budget. Receive certification that you work in a qualified employment position. Keep that certification up. This maximizes your chances for forgiveness.
Article last modified on August 9, 2018. Published by Debt.com, LLC . Mobile users may also access the AMP Version: Student Loan Forgiveness for Firefighters - AMP.


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Alaina grew up in rural New York, but recently moved to Illinois with her fiance. She has a B.A. in Human Development, and is hoping to learn more about the culture and opportunities Evanston has to offer. Her goal by the end of her term as an AmeriCorps Y.O.U.th Serve Member is to have a holistic understanding of the community she lives in, and to build skills in classroom management and leadership.
In her free time, Alaina enjoys reading/writing poetry, visiting new places with her fiance, and playing with her bunny, Pip.


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After much soul searching and deliberation, the Rebelle crew has decided to make a new blog and transfer all the LPR content from the website over to that new blog. Why not here? Because over the few years this blog's been in existence, access codes were lost by the participating bloggers, which means months went by without a single post, and readership diminished. A dead blog. Or nearly dead.
Out with the old, in with the more efficient.
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Texas Sen. John Cornyn is on President Trump's short list to lead the FBI. If he's selected, who do you hope Gov. Greg Abbott appoints to replace Cornyn was our next senator?
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Monday, 23 March 2015
British Politics And The Culture Of Exploitation
I wouldn't blame you for not knowing this but the UK elections are coming up in just a few months. We make less of a fuss about them than 'Murricans. For the last five years the country has been run by the ConDems, an affectionate portmanteau of the coalition between the Conservative party and the Liberal Democrat party. For the past five years low income families have suffered and for the past five years a culture of exploitation has thrived.
Statistically things are better. Average incomes are up and unemployment is down. These are flawed statistics thanks to Zero Hour Contracts. This is where people sign on to a job with no guaranteed hours, but no pay increase to compensate. Not to mention the "workfare" scheme where claimants of jobseekers allowance, a social benefit to keep them afloat while they look for a job, are forced to work for their benefits. It sounds alright until you consider they are forced to work 36 hour weeks for practically nothing. It's modern slavery and nothing less. To anyone who has a job, and who thinks people on benefits are all scroungers, how would you feel if you had to work at effectively less than a pound an hour? I think someone did the math and saw that was what it worked out at.
You know what else is up? The number of people who rely on food banks to survive. If average income is up why are there so many more people worse off? There are a lot of people individually who are screwed completely and it's just getting worse for them.
People who are desperate are being exploited in one form or another. The job centre exploits people by treating them like shit and forcing them to work for nothing. Then people take zero hour contracts to escape this and are just exploited again. They have no idea how much they'll work or when. There are even stories of people threatening to kill themselves in job centres and even pulling out knives to do the deed. This is the point we've reached. Some people have actually committed suicide over all of this.
This is bullshit and it can't be allowed to continue. It's actually potentially going to get worse too. UKIP are the acceptable face of racism and are the main threat to the Conservative party as people are likely to vote for one or the other. Nigel Farage is the leader of UKIP and has said he's willing to form a coalition with the Conservatives. The two of them together is way worse than either of them individually. It's the worst possible outcome for the country; a racist and a classist who have a surprising amount in common.
I'm aware I don't have much in the way of UK readership but if you're out there and reading this for the love of all things decent don't vote Conservative or UKIP. The country can't take five more years of this. Vote Labour or Greens or whoever you want, just not either of those.
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Good luck in the election!ReplyDelete
Any time I think we're screwed here and wish I could live somewhere else, I realize that the rest of the world is pretty screwed, too. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. I hope that changes for all of us.ReplyDeleteReplies
Sadly, thousands of years of human history would indicate you'd have a better chance of seeing Jesus at a nudie bar.Delete
With Ghandi.
You're right about Americans losing their minds about elections. My head hurts when I think how much I'm going to hear about the 2016 election. Twenty months before the 2016 election.ReplyDelete
If I were to run, my campaign motto would be simple (I hope):
Don't Be An Asshole
Wonder if that would fit on a button?
It seems hard to understand how these political parties that just screw the working person are able to hold onto power. Shows you how effective propaganda and enough money to propagate it is.ReplyDelete
I'm not political but well said! Sounds like it's time for a change!ReplyDelete
I have to vote on Saturday, just thought you would like to know that but I am Aussie who to vote for everyone is an asshole who likes all the timeReplyDelete


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New homeless youth shelter opens in Salt Lake City
(KUTV) The brand new Volunteers of America Youth Resource Center for Homeless and At Risk Youth will open its doors on Tuesday, May 24 at 10:30 a.m. in Salt Lake City. The public is invited for tours from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
The new, two-story, light-filled modern building on the corner of 900 South and 400 West replaces the old, small and gritty shelter on State Street.
"We are going to support them in their dreams and help them reach their goals so they don't become homeless for too long," said Kathy Bray, CEO of Volunteers of America of the hundreds of homeless youth who will use the facility and take part in its programs.
The new VOA youth shelter will provide 30 youth, ages 15 to 22, a warm play to sleep overnight. During the day, Bray expects some 40 to 60 youth will have meals, work on their high school classes or register for college at the facility in its light-filled computer rooms. The same youth can attend therapy sessions and receive guidance in searching for jobs or apartments.
Bray said the daytime program will be structured like a school schedule. The day begins with breakfast, then classes. After lunch there are more sessions followed by dinner.
The goal is to help the homeless youth onto a path of self-sufficiency where they can afford to live on their own.
The building is modern. Every wall features windows that let in natural light, creating an inviting and cheery environment. There is an outdoor hang-out area that is only accessible if you check into the facility.
The VOA Youth Resource Center cost 6 million dollars. The project was funded mostly by donations.
The shelter will run with the help of volunteers and will always be in need of donations. Bray said aside from cash donations, the youth always need new underwear, socks and shoes.
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The canal in Nottingham runs in and out of the River Trent between Beeston and Trent Bridge, it allows boat traffic to navigate around the fast shallow section of river. The parts of the canal that most people are familiar with are the London Road section that runs between the BBC roundabout to Trent Bridge, or the Castle Boulevard section which runs in the opposite way from the BBC island to Castle Marina - both of these sections run parallel to two of the main roads into the city centre.
The canal supports a wide range of species, but the main plan of attack should be roach and skimmers with the hope that a few bonus bream may eventually show up. Some of the pegs do attract chub, and, as with any canal there are rumours of some big double figure carp. Tactics wise, pole should be the main focus, just make sure that your feeding matches the time of year. Take a choice of baits and keep trying a piece of work or caster to try to tempt a bonus fish.
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- The end pegs towards the end of London Road are often where the winning match weights come from. There are a good number of bonus fish around this area which can help build weights.
- Further down, the "Tins" are a good set of pegs. You will see find them just up from the BBC island, where the opposite bank features all of the black metal sheeting. The pegs down near the law courts are said to be where all of the big slabby bream live.
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CHICAGO (CBS) — At the University of Illinois, there have been two sexual assaults in just six days. School started yesterday, but the first incident happened Wednesday.
Campus police say the victim was assaulted at an apartment and knew the attacker.
Just two days later, there was another case, allegedly at a fraternity house.
University of Illinois officials are required by law to disclose the information.
Today, Illinois State's Attorney Lisa Madigan reminded students about that very law that went into effect this month.
Universities and colleges must inform members of the campus about certain crimes. Students must be allowed to report an incident electronically and anonymously if they choose. And the college or university must respond to electronic reports within 12 hours, and provide a confidential adviser.
Statistically, one in five women on a college or university campus will be sexually assaulted. Most of those cases go unsolved or the attacker goes unpunished.
Now, there's a documentary about campus assault and its changing minds, and laws.
It's called "The Hunting Ground," and Tuesday night, there was a screening with one of the survivors, Carolyn Lubie. CBS2 Chicago co-hosted the event with partner "Chicago Says No More."
"This is a national problem." Lubie says.
The Hunting Ground takes a piercing look at the growing problem of sexual assault on campus, and what some believe to be a cover-up by college and university campuses.
"They protect perpetrators because they have a financial incentive to do so," a movie cast member says.
Tonight, the critically-acclamed film served as the backdrop to continue the conversation locally about rapes on campus. One woman featured in the film says she felt compelled to be at the event and answer questions.
"It's not always easy to talk about this but I felt like I had a responsibility to speak out," said Annie Clark, a rape survivor and activist. She was assaulted as a student at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. But she's turned her tragedy into a mission to help others.
She says Illinois' new law is designed to protect survivors of sexual assault, and she believes the confidential advisor requirement is key.
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The conservationists Inge Sielmann (87, of Munich), Dr. Kai Frobel (58, of Nuremberg) and Prof. Dr. Hubert Weiger (70, of Fürth) in the first instance, and the entrepreneurs Bernhard (86) and Johannes Oswald (56, of Miltenberg) in the second, are being awarded the 2017 German Environmental Prize by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, DBU). The foundation thus honors the committed work by this trio of conservationists on the first and largest pan-German conservation project, the "Green Belt", and by the family business OSWALD Elektromotoren toward the development of an especially energy-efficient electric motor for use in machines such as industrial crushers and presses, which has brought about a revolution in drive engineering. The award, endowed with a financial prize of € 245,000 in each case, will be presented to both prizewinning groups on 29 October in Braunschweig by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award, endowed with € 10,000, goes posthumously to the former Foreign Minister of the Marshall Islands, Tony de Brum who has just passed away at the age of 72.
"The stability of System Earth has been strained to its limits"
"In a world growing ever more complex, we need fundamentally new approaches in technology, research, the economic sphere and society as a whole", stated Assistant DBU-General Secretary Prof. Dr. Werner Wahmhoff today at the announcement of the new recipients of the DBU prizes, which will be presented in 2017 for the 25th time by the foundation. The fight for climate protection and conservation, and energy efficiency, are not an end in themselves here. The stability of "System Earth" has been "strained to our planet's limits by us humans," he said. Wahmhoff: "We are the last generation still in a position to make a turnaround, but also the first to suffer from the massive impacts of global changes. Ultimately we are dealing with the question of how, in the year 2050, some ten billion humans can live well and in harmony with the natural basis of existence."
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Sanctions and Mandela's legacy
By Judy Kuszewski
Nelson Mandela seems not long for this life. The world keeps vigil at his bedside, monitoring his slow but apparently inexorable decline, and hoping for a merciful end for the man who suffered and struggled and achieved so much over his ninety-four years.
I have used the occasion to remember a visit to South Africa a few years ago. On an off day in Cape Town, a colleague and I paid a visit to the museum at Robben Island, the site of the notorious prison where Mandela (along with many of his cohort) spent 18 of his 27 years of imprisonment.
A ferry ride across some famously choppy waters (a boat I was delighted to exit) brought us to a bleak and barren landscape. We were taken by coach to see the preserved facilities of the prison and finally to the high-security prison itself. It was not hard to imagine the frigid winter winds and the prisoners' thin, skimpy blankets. Harder to imagine was the grace and humanity of Robben Island's most famous ex-prisoner, who through decades of degradation and physical hardship refused to dehumanize his captors as they had done to him, and who lived in belief of a better future every single day. Throughout his internment, he plotted every step of the Long Walk to Freedom in his mind's eye, and as appalling as the prison conditions were, his vision of redemption was far more powerful. And while the world has since embraced South Africa's transition to majority rule, I have found it salutary to also remember that not all were genuinely in favor at the time.
What is incredible about the prison tour is that it is guided by a former political inmate – one with first-hand knowledge of a prisoner's day-to-day life and the wider impact of the prison on South African society and the world's consciousness during the Apartheid years. Robben Island prison was repeatedly condemned by the Red Cross and finally closed in 1996, before being listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999. If I may make a suggestion to anyone visiting Cape Town, please go and visit. The scenery is far from lovely, but the experience is profound, and the tour guides are not getting any younger, so now is the time.
Mandela and his legacy have also had me thinking about the global movement that brought down the Apartheid regime, and what we ought to remember about it today. Specifically, South Africa was the target of one of the first large-scale global boycott, divestiture and sanctions movements. What was the role of divestiture in those days – and what about today, and in other parts of the world?
The South Africa divestment movement really began in earnest in the late 1970s – although there had been calls for sanctions since the early 60s – when private industry came into focus. It owes much to the Sullivan Principles, named for the Rev. Leon Sullivan, then a board member of General Motors; the principles call for companies to ensure integrated workplaces, equal treatment and equal protection of all employees, regardless of race. The enforced segregation and discrimination of Apartheid South Africa ran directly counter to the Sullivan Principles, and General Motors – then the largest employer of black South Africans – found itself the target of divestment campaigners because of the difficulty of upholding the principles, as did hundreds of other companies. Many companies ultimately did divest; many others resisted mightily, and there remains debate to this day over whether this divestment helped or harmed the South African people, short-term or long-term (see for example here and here).
My old friend Bob Massie wrote about the role of sanctions in his award-winning book Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa During the Apartheid Years, published in 1997. He argues that sanctions were critical in starving the regime of the foreign capital it desperately needed to prop up an economy fundamentally unbalanced and artificially constrained by the impacts of Apartheid. The color barrier, he argues, kept black wages artificially low, and thus catastrophically constrained economic growth, keeping it entirely dependent on a small and saturated white market. Furthermore, foreign sanctions and withdrawal of foreign direct investment suppressed growth even further, while the oil embargo alone added billions to the country's annual energy costs. Massie's analysis certainly lends credence to the notion that sanctions can create real change, although other economic forces no doubt contributed.
I asked Simon Billenness, a US-based consultant, expert and campaigner for human rights and sustainability, how he views sanctions in today's world. Simon co-founded the US Campaign for Burma, which advocated a wide variety of sanctions against that country on behalf of US pension funds, municipalities and states, during the worst years of the military junta there. "One of the many things Mandela did was to plant a seed for later global justice movement work, based on the principle of solidarity," he said. "It very much began with Mandela and the ANC calling for economic sanctions on their own country, and asking the international community to support that out of solidarity. Here we had a call for sanctions by a legitimate leader of the South African majority. It was powerful in that it really connected solidarity work around the work with that being done on the ground inside South Africa."
Billenness went on: "When it came to Burma, and Aung San Suu Kyi called for sanctions, we were able to transpose the model and compare the call for sanctions on Burma as having same legitimacy and effectiveness as that on South Africa. Her party, the National League for Democracy, had actually won an election at that point. We deliberately used a lot of the same strategy and tactics that were successfully used in the anti-apartheid campaign. I even copied the exact same wording of a Massachusetts law to write the Massachusetts Burma selective purchasing bill. In fact, all I changed was replacing the words "South Africa" with "Burma (Myanmar)"
When Burmese authorities released Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest and permitted a far-ranging set of political reforms, sanctions imposed by other nations were swiftly lifted in a show of support. But were sanctions the key in the first place? Sanctions were instrumental, he said: "The Burmese authorities continually called on the US and EU to drop sanctions. In response to reforms by the Burmese regime, the US and the EU have successively ratcheted down the sanctions. Suu Kyi being released was huge, and her party's freedom to campaigns and win the legislative by-elections that followed were as well. In the South Africa case, Mandela didn't call for dropping of sanctions until the transition to democracy was in his words 'irreversible' – that was his standard for when change is real or not. Aung San Suu Kyi has used the term too as a benchmark for judging change in Burma. It's a difficult judgment call, but that's the key concept."
Finally, looking at the corporate legacy of the South Africa experience, I wondered how today's companies should regard economic and business sanctions as part of the CR landscape. During the Apartheid years, many companies were deeply opposed to sanctions, arguing they were a wrong-headed approach to political reform. When waves of companies finally gave in to demands from protesters and their own shareholders to divest from South Africa, many did so in a cynical way, maintaining their commercial presence, and the availability of their goods, services and brands in the country while superficially meeting the definition of divestiture in use at the time. And almost all argued they'd divested for purely business reasons, and not because of outside pressure. Would the private sector ever come to a different view of its own role and responsibility in bringing about political change?
Simon Billenness said: "Companies withdrew from South Africa for a variety of reasons, but they're all connected. When US lawmakers ended tax deductibility of tax payments to the apartheid regime in South Africa, suddenly Mobil Corporation was facing a tax rate in excess of 100%. Similarly, a lot of banks pulled out because of state and local government selective purchasing laws that threatened their much larger markets in the US, particularly for underwriting municipal bonds. Obviously, these withdrawals were indeed for business reasons, but they came about through external pressure."
"Even when something is completely in a company's interest, a lot of times they need to be cajoled either by us or by their own shareholders to do that. Some companies get it and get ahead of the curve but the big guys tend to move more slowly. Companies aren't monoliths, and the outside pressure helps those executives who share our views within companies win the arguments internally."


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Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago is a cross disability organization governed and staffed by a majority of people with disabilities. We strive to enhance the opportunities of persons with disabilities to live individualized and satisfying lives. To this end, Access Living undertakes advocacy and service programs that reach the entire spectrum of disability from hearing and sight to physical and mental disabilities. Access Living's mission includes addressing major impediments to independent living for people with disabilities, such as discrimination in housing, government services and public accommodations.
Access Living has a Civil Rights Team, which enforces federal, state and local civil rights laws — including the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Fair Housing Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act — that prohibit discrimination against persons with disabilities. Attorneys and legal assistants counsel persons with disabilities about their civil rights, advocate for systemic change within the disability rights arena, and represent persons with disabilities in cases implicating important disability rights issues.
PILI Interns & Fellows interview clients, investigate cases, conduct legal research, and draft legal documents. Under the supervision of an attorney, Interns & Fellows often act as the main point-person on a few cases. A concerted effort is made to integrate Fellows into the day-to-day operations of the organization; hence, they participate in staff meetings, Team meetings and other relevant events.
This agency is approved to host a Law Student Intern during the summer. They are also approved to host Graduate Fellows.


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Title of Bulletin Board: Winter "Wonder" Land
Category: Seasons (Fall, Spring, etc.)
Suggested Grade Level: k-2
Materials: Bulletin board paper, construction paper,scissors, glue, tape, pictures of ideas of how to be active and get exercise while it's cold outside!
The board is a wintery wonderland that is bordered with large snowflakes that have pictures of ideas/suggestions of how to still be active and get exercise even when it is cold outside. The message at the bottom...."How can I stay active...." definitely gets the children thinking; which in turn motivates the children so they can see that there are activities they can do in the cold months to keep moving and not just play videos.
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Living With Life Threatening Illness Course
A few weeks before his death in 2006, former Center for Ethics in Health Care faculty member Miles J. Edwards, MD, was asked how he wanted to spend his remaining days. His simple answer was that he would like to continue teaching, and so he did. Drawing from his own final illness, he taught some of his most compelling lessons about patient care nearing the end of his life.
The Living With Life Threatening course was designed for first year medical students at Oregon Health & Science University. The course gives students the opportunity to learn directly from patients and families what it is like to deal with serious illness. Each student gets to know a particular patient and family in depth by having multiple informal visits with the patient-teacher throughout the course.
The visits allow students to form meaningful relationships with people who are facing the physical, social, psychological, and spiritual issues of life-threatening illness, anticipated death, and bereavement. Each patient-teacher is welcome to share their thoughts and feelings about their illness, the care they've received, concerns about the future, and the impact of their illness on the family. Often times we learn from students that the course had a major impact on their medical career as it prepares students to have difficult conversations with terminal patients.
Student Feedback
"I've come a long way since the Living with Life Threatening Illness elective! (and I use those skills nearly every day). It's hard not to articulate the pride I feel from training at OHSU, in large part because of the humanity and high ethical standards of the mentors I had along the way. Thank you so much for your role in my journey. In that vein, just yesterday, I engaged a very sick patient's wife in a conversation about end-of-life and his poor prognosis. I didn't know her well, but as we were talking, I felt the need to hold her hand in the conversation. You were the one to teach me that human touch is not only okay, but welcomed and sometimes necessary. I grabbed her hand, and when I did, she let down tears and wanted a hug. It was a really sweet moment and I thank you for teaching me."
- Erin Chamberlain, Class of 2013
Click here to view a video that shares more about the impact of the Living With Life Threatening Illness Class.


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I LOVE this shirt. I have it in both red and green. Honestly, I wear this shirt almost every day. It is warm and cozy, without making me too hot. It looks good with leggings and jeans. It is comfortable. You will not regret this purchase!
I love this flannel! I am generally always cold, so this product completes me! I like that it is fitted and the colors are nice ( I got the blue and green). It is super comfortable and the fleece inside is great. The snaps are easy. The front pocket fits a tiny wallet which is nice.I originally ordered a small but it was too large since the look is supposed to be fitted. I exchanged for an XS which looks great. I am 5'4" and 115lbs. The exchange process was simple and I immediately spoke directly with customer service on the phone. She was personable and friendly!
Wow! This is a great jacket for any outdoor enthusiast! It's in my bag for any trips that will dip below 65. It's the first thing I throw on after a chilly trail run. It's great for keeping me happy at the trailhead camp site and the quality is incredible! You forget that clothing can be made this well and this sturdy. Again, Stio makes sure you have full mobility in this jacket. There is nothing more frustrating than having the shoulders of a shirt or jacket catch and limit you when swinging an ax or reaching for a hold. I'm 5'5" 127 lbs 29" waist and 34b-c. A size small fits me very well.
This is an awesome layer for all kinds of mountain fun. It fits great and is flattering yet practical. I highly recommend it.
For reference, I'm 5' 8" and 155 lbs, ordered a medium. This shirt will be great atop a short or long-sleeved tshirt. Had I ordered a large, I'd probably be able to do a heavier base layer with it, but it will work well under a vest and should keep me plenty warm. The bonded flannel is definitely high-quality as are the stitching and the snaps. The description indicates that the shirt has elbow patches, but the shirt I received doesn't have patched elbows; bummer, but this shirt will definitely get some miles in the next few years!
I love the new plaid this year! It's a nice change from the traditional buffalo plaid that was used in the past. I have the red and love it. It looks great as an over shirt/jacket in the early fall or as a layer for camping, skiing or to and from the yoga studio. I am a HUGE fan of the buckhorn. I am 5'4", 120lbs and wear a size small which fits great with layers underneath.
This flannel is super warm comfortable and flattering! I wish they had 10 colors to choose from because I would buy them all!
This shirt is awesome it's so comfortable and so cozy. Could even sleep in it.
This is the perfect layer for mountain town living. I've been wearing it as a jacket all fall, and intend on rocking it all winter long as a cozy layer. Love the front snaps and reenforced elbow patches!.
I love that there is a woman's version of the Buckhorn this year, as I was always snagging my husband's last year. It has a nice feminine fit, while still be a boyfriend-like piece. It is the perfect Fall piece for changing temps and picking out pumpkins! I got the blue check, but may just get the red as well.
This flannel is so soft and warm and wonderful. The lining is really nice and I'm a big fan of the black and red color scheme. It's a nice departure from the more muted color palette typical of Stio. This is the perfect light outer layer for the cooler fall days.
It has all the rugged details just right without compromising feminine style. I wore it with some booties, dark denim, and a plain tee underneath. It is true to size, SO warm, and unbelievably soft.
Great classic flannel style with the hidden benefit of being lined with microfleece! Yet another versatile piece - I see this being great all winter long as well as camping on cool summer mountain nights! I went with the Dresden Blue Check because I like the twist on a classic style, the red being more traditional. Modern mountain apparel at it's finest!
I got my buckhorn about a month ago and have already used it for every camping trip and bonfire. The weight is heavier than your average flannel and the micro fleece liner makes it the perfect weight for all our fall adventures in the Tetons! Looking forward to cozying up in this all winter!
I just got my Buckhorn Bonded Flannel Shirt today. I LOVE it - and so does my husband! Fits really well and is perfect for cold Colorado days. Thanks, Stio! I have the feeling we'll be seeing a lot more packages from you. :)
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INGREDIENTS:½ cup boneless, skinless chicken breast, grilled, diced
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1 Tbsp. green onion, chopped for garnish
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Image's Eric Stephenson on creators' rights, Saga and sales figures
In a three-part interview with ICv2.com, Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson talks in his typical straightforward fashion about a number of topics, ranging from the state of the market and the phenomenon of The Walking Dead collections to the early success of Saga and competing with "the DC and Marvel superhero stuff." The entire Q&A is worthwhile reading, but here are some of the highlights:
On creators' rights: "People talk to me about what's going on with the Watchmen stuff. If Image Comics had been around when Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons wanted to do Watchmen, they would have had someplace else they could have gone to do that type of work. The situation that developed out of what did or didn't happen with those contracts would have been irrelevant because they would have had a deal that offered them 100 percent creator ownership."
On competing with long-established properties from Marvel and DC Comics: "If you look at the success stories over the last 20 years (start with Sandman, which is a weird deal between DC and Neil [Gaiman]), and moving up until now, you can't point to anything new that has been created by Marvel and DC that's had any lasting impact, but there are all these things, whether it's Bone, Hellboy, Sin City, The Walking Dead or Y: The Last Man, that are all tremendously successful properties that have done especially well as trade paperback sales both in and outside the comics market. Those things support the fact that there's an audience for new material. Is there an audience for superhero stuff? Of course, all of the DC and Marvel superhero stuff that goes back 50, 60, 70 years, those people are going to be there, but I think there's an audience that craves something new. Once you've read a story about Spider-Man fighting the Green Goblin for the dozenth time, I think you get hungry for something else. I think there are publishers out there who provide that something else."
On the success of Saga, the new series by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples: "It's been our biggest launch of the year so far. We just announced a fourth printing on that. […] We're getting to the 70,000 mark, and that's in addition to really strong digital numbers on the book too, which I find heartening in terms of the conversation of print vs. digital."
On the disparity between Diamond sales estimates and the actual figures: "Just going off of what happens, usually in the space of a month, there seems to be a pretty great difference in how things are being reported. If that's being reported to you as the U.S. numbers as opposed to U.K. numbers, that's not how the numbers come to us. That to me seems a little odd. […] I would love an explanation of why those numbers, including Diamond UK, aren't reported. They're reported to publisher. When we get our numbers from Diamond, it is not broken down by channel; it is 'here is a lump number.' Why we would be provided one number and reporting for sales would be different, doesn't make a lot of sense to me."
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Safety proceedures in freediving
Performance freediving is a dangerous sport. The consequence of small misstakes can be fatal, both at competition and at training. The ultimate danger is to suffer lack of oxygen - which will cause loss of motor control and in extension also a blackout. Both these will probably occur at the surface. But if hyperventilating before a dive or extending your dive beyond your limits you might suffer shallow water blackout. Which could be explained in a decrease in waterpressure while descending the last meters which will cause oxygen leaving your blood and your brain and reentering the lungs - you blackout - loose your air - sink - and die.
Below are som descriptions on how to increase safety when freediving for depth.
1) First rule of freediving is no never dive alone. Divers have died while doing quite routine and simple performances while being alone. There are still so many factors we are not aware of.
2) Hyperventilation will increase the comfortable time of your breathold but will let you continue passed the point where lack of oxygen might cause blackout.
3) Never let out any air at any point of the dive, until slightly before breaking surface.
4) Weight yourself positive at 10 meters, at least.
5) Use a line as refernce and swim straight up without stoping.
6) Do not dive against the depth gauge - listen to your body instead.
All these rules have been broken and has caused LMC, blackout and death.
- Relax even more, but open your eyes and your consiousness and remind yourself on your upcoming breathing routine.
- Use the line to pull yourself up - using new musclegroups closer to the bloodcirculation.
- Loosen belt, holding it in one hand. At blackout you will drop belt and your level of positive bouyancy will be deeper!
(Note that; If losing your air - your will probably turn negative in bouyancy directly)
RIGHT: Do not do anything but breath upon return - focus on breathing in - keeping your lungs under pressure.
If partners breathing is irregular, or his gaze is blank. Support him keeping his airways out of water. If suffering LMC - stop diving for the day.
If your partner stops swimming.
- Support him under armpit or elbow or grab his wrist over his head. Pull him to surface. Drop belts if needed.
If partner loses air.
- Close his airways and transport him to surface.
Check grip on right.
Do not release air until at surface.
Turn when your body tells you - not at a certain depth. Use the line to pull if in doubt.
Hold the line and feel your partner pulling at his turning point. Many pulls in the line might be a sign of distress.
Photos by: Sebastian Naslund and Niklas Bernstone.
Photos of grips and handling of BO victim taken at performance freediving clinic by Kirk Krack


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SINGAPORE — It is one of the closest U.S. allies in the Pacific, offering access to military facilities at a time when the Philippines is trying to boot the Americans out. But despite a strong affinity for the United States and many aspects of its culture, Singapore continues to take a defiant stand against what it considers to be the unwelcome incursions of Western news media.
Two developments earlier this month help illustrate Singapore's stand, perhaps the toughest in the developed world:
* The Asian Wall Street Journal, sister publication of the Journal in the United States, announced that it was halting circulation in the island republic after a lengthy legal dispute with the Singapore government.
* Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, whose political party has ruled Singapore since it gained independence in 1965, issued a scathing criticism of the Western media, accusing television inparticular of creating false hopes among Chinese students during last year's disturbances in Beijing and charging that American news organizations had set out two years ago to deliberately change the view of Congress about Cambodia.
"Singapore is a totally urban society with state-of-the-art-telecommunications, and no government can effectively censor what the people read," Lee declared. "But the government can and will insist on no interference in the domestic politics of Singapore."


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OSLO/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia, the United States and Papua New Guinea are on course to join the leading world initiative to combat corruption in the energy and mining industries.
The Oslo-based Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) approved their applications on Wednesday, drawing swift criticism from human rights campaigners for admitting Ethiopia. The three now have three years comply with EITI standards.
Ethiopia has no proven petroleum reserves and a small mining industry driven by potash producers. Rights activists accuse it of political repression.
New York-based Human Rights Watch, which had asked the EITI board to reject the East African country's membership bid, said the EITI's reputation had been damaged.
"The EITI's decision to admit Ethiopia without insisting on reforms is an affront to the local activists who have been jailed or exiled for calling for a more transparent, accountable government," Lisa Misol, a senior researcher at HRW, said in a statement.
The Addis Ababa government did not comment on its successful bid.
Commercial oil finds in neighboring Kenya have raised hopes of a strike in neighboring Ethiopia.
International explorers in Ethiopia include London-listed Tullow Oil and Africa Oil which are drilling along the country's southern border with Kenya.
Home to Sub-Saharan Africa's second largest population, Ethiopia is among the continent's fastest growing economies. But the opposition and rights campaigners there accuse the government of stifling dissent and torturing political detainees, allegations the government strongly denies.
"In its discussions, the EITI Board stressed the importance of ensuring civil society engagement in Ethiopia's efforts to comply with the EITI Standard," the group said on its web site.
An earlier effort by Ethiopia to join was rebuffed in 2010.
At the Oslo meeting Yemen, an exporter of oil and gas and one of the poorest nations in the Middle East, was suspended as an EITI member.
It did not report in time its 2011 income from oil and gas, due to the turmoil of the Arab Spring, Clare Short, EITI chairwoman told Reuters. She said it was encouraged to keep trying to stay in the initiative and meet the rules.
United States membership commits its federal government to disclosing all the payments it receives for the exploitation of oil and minerals on federal lands, which would include the money it gets from offshore oil and gas exploration and production.
"The U.S. have all sorts of different reporting in their system, which is quite complex. Some is reported at the federal level, some is at state level, and Native Americans ... have different systems," Clare Short, chairwoman of the EITI, told Reuters.
"Getting an overview and getting some figures that people can look at and scrutinize ... will help people have better transparency and accountability."
Currently energy firms active in the U.S. may break out profits and production by regions of activities, like the Gulf of Mexico.
But they do not break out profits made on federal land in earnings reports or in filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Abroad, U.S.-registered companies are already required to disclose payments made to governments for access to resources.
The EITI has stakeholders in the public and private sectors and requires resource companies to disclose payments made to governments and the latter to publish what payments they receive.
EITI terms are not legally binding, but member countries that fall short of requirements can be suspended from the process, leading to political embarrassment. Some 44 nations are EITI members.
(Reporting By Aaron Maasho in Addis Ababa, Gwladys Fouche in Oslo and Pascal Fletcher in Johannesburg; Writing by Richard Lough, editing by William Hardy)


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Leave No Trace was incorporated as a 501(c)(3), nonprofit organization in 1994, though the Leave No Trace concept is over 40 years old. Created by the U.S.D.A. Forest Service in the 1960's, Leave No Trace was seen as increasingly necessary as public land use expanded and land managers witnessed the biophysical effects of this use.
By the mid-1980's, the Forest Service had a formal "No-Trace" program emphasizing wilderness ethics and sustainable travel and camping practices. The success of this program lead to cooperation among the Forest Service, National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management's authorship of a pamphlet entitled "Leave No Trace Land Ethics." In the early 1990s, the Forest Service worked with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) to develop hands-on, science-based minimum impact education training for non-motorized recreational activities.
An outdoor recreation summit convened in 1993 that included the various outdoor industry and sporting trade associations, NOLS, nonprofit organizations, outdoor manufacturers and federal land management agencies to create an independent nonprofit organization called Leave No Trace, Inc. The organization, now known as the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics (the Center), was incorporated to develop and expand Leave No Trace training and educational resources, spread the general program components, and engage a diverse range of partners from the federal land management agencies and outdoor industry corporations to nonprofit environmental and outdoor organizations and youth-serving groups.
In 1994, the Center entered into the first of a series of Memorandums of Understandings with four primary federal land management agencies including the United States Department of Agriculture — Forest Service and the United States Department of the Interior — Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service. Recently, the United States Army Corps of Engineers joined these federal land management agencies. In 2007, the National Association of State Parks Directors, the governing organization for state parks in the United States, and the Center developed a formal affiliate partnership to expand the possible use of the Leave No Trace program on state park lands.
Since 2004, the Center has developed a comprehensive, three-tiered training system, encompassing field courses such as the five-day Master Educator course and workshops that range from one hour to two days. The Center also expanded Leave No Trace teaching tools adding educational activity guides, reference cards for various types of outdoor use, and expanding on the Leave No Trace Skills & Ethics booklet series for distinct activities and ecosystems.
Major program development in the last decade has focused on providing quality Leave No Trace education while broadening the program's reach including: 1) A Traveling Trainer Program consisting of teams of mobile educators that travel throughout the continental United States teaching Leave No Trace and providing grassroots support to build Leave No Trace education and outreach programs at the local level. In 2007, a mobile summer educational program called the "e-tour" was added to the Center's traveling educational offerings and in 2011, a seasonal team for Colorado was added; 2) A youth program called PEAK — Promoting Environmental Awareness in Kids — that reaches over 150,000 diverse youth annually with direct programming; 3) Frontcountry and urban-based Leave No Trace programs and training for state and city natural areas and parks; 4) Community-based initiatives including local and regional educational events and volunteer opportunities coordinated by a State Advocate network; 5) A grants and scholarship program for educators, diverse communities, and kids education; and 6) A slate of emerging programs such as Hot Spots and Backyard Sessions to support Leave No Trace programs in communities across the country.
Today, the Leave No Trace program reaches millions of Americans and dozens of countries each year with direct training, educational tools and information. Corporate partners, individual members, foundation support, and the sales of Leave No Trace educational materials provide the primary support for the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics.
A national, volunteer-based Board of Directors made up of leaders from the outdoor industry, national youth-serving organizations, nonprofit organizations, and the scientific community provide strategic leadership and set policy. A staff headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, carry out the organization's programs and mission related work.